Greatest Transportation device in history ?

Henry...

Concorde

Apollo 11

Jaguar X type

Archeron

Lolo ball

Speedline

Honda 50.

flazio

Skechers

biko

Skateboard.

the_pen_turner

MF 135. really transformed farming . i could do all the field work and road work and removed a shocking amount of hard labour from farming.
combne that whith the fact that most are still going decades later and still a work horse all these years later

Wibbs

Henry... wrote: »

Concorde

Apollo 11

Jaguar X type

Out of those three, probably Concorde. Or at least a few on the Apollo project reckoned so when they met Concorde engineers. Apollo was an incredible, nay monumental engineering feat, but as they noted in many ways Concorde was more difficult, because it was a regular daily vehicle doing crazy flight speeds and doing it year after year, and while ordinary people sat in the back drinking champagne at Mach 2.

It can be hard to put ourselves into the times back then. Concorde and Apollo were born in a period of pen and paper, sliderules and very basic computers that filled rooms and hadn't a tenth of the capablities of the cheapest smartphone. Hell, the ram and processing power just to display this page on your screen dwarfs what they had acces to back then. They had to invent and develop so much from scratch. The first ever aircraft flight was well within a lifetime ago and the breaking the sound barrier wasn't much more than a decade past when they started work on the supersonic jetliner project.

As far as the common man goes, the greatest device was either the train or the car as far as the impact on our lives goes. The train had a huge impact. Even in how we tell the time. If you're in Dublin, or Galway now it's the same official time in both. Before the railways came that wasn't the case. It also allowed people, most for the first time, to travel hundreds of miles away from their birthplace and do so rapidly. The later car did similar for the ordinary person.

Wibbs

the_pen_turner wrote: »

MF 135. really transformed farming . i could do all the field work and road work and removed a shocking amount of hard labour from farming.
combne that whith the fact that most are still going decades later and still a work horse all these years later

The tractor itself, the model doesn't really matter, had a huge impact on humanity alright.

Henry...

Concorde is absolutely my no.1

the beer revolu

The shoe.

nullzero

The unicycle, simply for the slapstick properties it possesses.

Strumms

I’d put the 747 or A380 way ahead of Concorde.

Concord was unbelievably expensive to operate, if I remember correctly it was costing over an average 1000 dollars to the airline per passenger before profit was factored in.

747 was about 150 dollars, facilitating hundreds more people, tonnes of cargo, another great revenue generator..

Only about 14 Concordes flew, for mainly 2 airlines, why ? Too expensive to operate...fuel and maintenance. More airlines committed to purchasing Concorde but pulled out then actually operated it..

The Concorde was speedy, comfy for sure but that was about it..

At the time of the first flight the options list contained 74 options from 16 airlines...

About 87% of the Concorde orders were not fulfilled...that tells you something.

Zebra3

The human.

peasant

The simple pipe (line)

No more carrying of buckets of water (or sh!t)

KaneToad

The bicycle. Followed by the Honda50 and equivalents. It was the democratisation of travel.

Stovepipe

For centuries,the horse and the carts it pulled until the bicycle came along and mobilised the masses, alongside the steam engine and the train and electric trams in cities and then the automobile and of course, the Model T Ford and mass production of vehicles.

Thelonious Monk

Boats of course but for short distances has to be bicycle